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Sydney C

Working Conditions in American Slaughterhouses: Worse than You Thought - 1 views

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the jungle working conditions

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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Working Conditions in American Slaughterhouses 2001
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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article shows a direct relationship of The Jungle to current conditions in slaughterhouses around the nation. The article compares Jurgis Rudkis to a modern Mexican immigrant. Recruiting Mexican immigrants to work in the slaughterhouses has become a common practice in the industry, as the Naturalization Services estimates one quarter of the workers in Nebraska and Iowa are illegal immigrants. The article also explains the relation of injuries on the job to the cleanliness of meat we eat. The fast pace in slaughterhouses leads to contamination of meat, as accidental intestinal spillage of cattle is found in meat. Due to this contamination, fast food is not safe to eat, since the fast food industry buys most of the country's meat.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    The article speaks to how little the conditions have changed since The Jungle and how the industry still employs the cheapest and least educated work force they can get their hands on. In the early 1900s this the immigrants from places like Poland many like Jurgis and now it is the spanish immigrants most of who are illegal. They don not complain and are constantly at risk of injury for which largely goes unreported.
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Comparing the conditions of the factories where Jurgis and Eastern European immigrants worked with the new factories in Nebraska where South American/Mexican immigrants now work. It talks about how conditions are still harsh, and it is still hard to make ends meet even after all these years.
Sydney C

History of America's Meat Packing Industry - 0 views

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the jungle ethics conditions

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  • Over the next 40 years, unions such as the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) were able to improve both the pay and working conditions of meat packing employees in the U.S. The UPWA was also known for its progressive ideals and its support of the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
  • Developments such as improved distribution channels allowed meat packing companies to move out of urban, union-dominated centers and relocate to rural areas closer to livestock feedlots.
  • By the late 1990s, the meat packing industry had consolidated such that the top four firms accounted for approximately 50 percent of all U.S. poultry and pork production and 80 percent of all beef production.
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  • Governor Michael Johanns (currently U.S. Secretary of Agriculture) issued the "Nebraska Meatpacking Industry Workers Bill of Rights" in June of 2000. Though only a voluntary set of guidelines, the bill recognized the rights of meat packing employees to organize, work in safe conditions, and to seek help from the state.
  • The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there was an average of 12.6 injuries or illnesses per 100 full-time meat packing plant employees in 2005, a number twice as high as the average for all U.S. manufacturing jobs. Some experts maintain that this number is actually too low as many workers' injuries go unreported due to employee misinformation or intimidation.
  • According to REAP, a union-affiliated group, union membership among meat packing employees has plunged from 80 percent in 1980 to less than 50 percent today.
  • the number of immigrant laborers in meat packing plants—and in the Midwestern areas in which they are primarily located—has increased dramatically. According to the USDA, the percentage of Hispanic meat-processing workers rose from less than 10 percent in 1980 to nearly 30 percent in 2000.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article by PBS chronicles the evolution of the workers in the meat packing industry. The article tells of the meat packing industry revealed by Sinclair to present conditions. The average hourly wage for meat packing workers has fallen since the 1970's. The article also tells of the poor working conditions "Fast Food Nation" describes and how meat packing is one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
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  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    Detailed timeline of the meat packing indusrty from the 1930s-present; discusses the evolution of unions, steps taken by the government, and internal changes of the industry.
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    Shows how little things have changed
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    Schlosser says in his book how he feels that little has changed since the times of the chicago meat packing trusts, and this pbs article speaks in support of that claim. It gives examples of how conditions in 2005 are "that the working conditions in America's meat packing plants were so bad they violated basic human and worker rights"
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    Meatpacking industry through the years. This article highlights the way that the meatpacking industry and its ethics/conditions have changed (or not) throughout the years. It argues that things are pretty much as bad as the times of The Jungle.
Anne P

Working Conditions Pose Problems for Workers and Employers - 2 views

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nickel and dimed working conditions

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  • Anne P on 26 Sep 11
     
    Good article about the poor conditions or workers in the US.
Ellen L

Workers brought into US and 'exploited' - Americas - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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Nickel and dimed treatment workers poor migrants

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  • A US federal agency has filed lawsuits over the unequal treatment of more than 500 migrant workers from India brought into the country to work at shipyards in Mississipi and Texas, and over 200 Thai farm labourers brought in to work in Hawaii and Washington state.
  • "They were nickeled and dimed to the point where they really didn't have any pay," said Anna Park, regional attorney for the EEOC Los Angeles office.
  • The EEOC says that some of the workers were forced to live in crowded conditions, and their quarters were infested with rats and insects.
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  • Officials also said that the workers had their passports taken from them, and were threatened with deportation if they complained.
  • Ellen L on 03 Oct 11
     
    A lawsuit occured involving the trafficing and poor treatment of migrant workers. Many of these workers paid agents to come to the states to get a job, only to find themselves living in crowded, infested conditions. This relates to the Jungle and the struggles and conditions of the migrant workers then.
Evan G

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  • Evan G on 10 Oct 11
     
    "the conditions in factories were hazardous, and their pay was lower than that of a man. In fact the husbands controlled their wives wages. At the same time the middle and upper class women were to stay idle and only to be decorative symbols of their husband's economic success." In the lower classes, women worked for low wages in dangerous conditions; in the higher classes, respectable women were not permitted to work, and were simply symbols of their husbands' success. Regardless of socioeconomic status, women were controlled, and had to be prim, proper, and feminine without appearing too independent or self-reliant.
Connor P

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#1 grapes wrath poor treatment workers

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  • Living conditions are also difficult for migrant farmworkers. Wages for farmwork have not kept up with inflation; consequently, it is difficult for families to afford basic necessities like housing, food, health care, and education for their children.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote displays the tangent between the poor working conditions of the farmers in the 30s and of now. The workers are treated horrible and no one can help them because they are independent workers or their buyers stiff them. Due to the oppression they receive, the theme of helping others is again ignored
Connor P

Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: The Grapes of Wrath - 1 views

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#3 grapes of wrath poor treatment workers helping

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  • The Grapes of Wrath is a bitter tale of humans against nature and against a brutally exploitive society, but it is also a tale of nobility, of self-sacrifice, and ultimately of hope.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote shows the constant battle between humans against nature and society. Nature and society is symbolic of the poor working conditions and few jobs that they must overcome. By displaying the theme of the fight for better conditions, Steinbeck parallels this with his theme of helping others to show their differences
Sydney C

BRIA 24 1 b Upton Sinclairs The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry - Constitu... - 0 views

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the jungle working conditions

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  • The progressives revealed how these companies eliminated competition, set high prices, and treated workers as "wage slaves."
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article reveals this lack of business ethics during this time period through the cooperation of large industries in order to reduce competition. As a result, they are able to drive prices up, which depicts their cruelty towards customers as well as the treatment of workers as "wage slaves" in order to gain more profits.
  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article gives historical information on the meat packing industry of the early 1900's. The article tells of the progressive movement of the age which supported reforms. The article tells of the response to "The Jungle" and the innovative aspects of the new processing regulations. The article also gives a short biography about Sinclair's childhood to his death.
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  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    speaks to alot of the conditions Jurgis and his family went though
  • Ben R on 30 Sep 11
     
    "Unskilled immigrant men did the backbreaking and often dangerous work, laboring in dark and unventilated rooms, hot in summer and unheated in winter." The article shows how cruel the conditions of the factory worker were. And since the work force was unskilled and immigrants, they were often taken advantage of because they knew no better
  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    The ethical issues addressed in The Jungle and how they relate to the bills passed after the publication. It talks about how Roosevelt responded to the book and passed many new restrictions on the Chicago meatpacking district, as well as businesses all over the country.
Zach Ramsfelder

Wages and Working Conditions - 2 views

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the jungle treatment of the worker

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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    This article describes the changes in wages and working conditions for labor since 1900.
  • Sydney C on 04 Oct 11
     
    Haha the comparison of exotic dancers to lemonade stand kids is funny at the beginning. But, anyways, the way this article goes in to such great detail about the conditions helps to get a better understanding of how bad it still is to work in some of these places.
Vivas T

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the jungle treatment of the worker authorial purpose

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  • This text's effort to expose the deadly living and working conditions of the immigrants in Chicago's stockyards and meatpacking factories was co-opted by the consumer movement's campaign for protective legislation and led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This clearly displays the vile working conditions as well as depicts one of Sinclair's purposes in writing this novel. His purpose was to portray the horrible treatment of the worker inconsiderate nature of the meatpacking industries towards its customers also. Therefore, one of the outcomes was the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Vivas T

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nickel and dimed treatment of the worker the jungle ethics

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  • Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed (2001) both offer accounts of the hazards and tribulations of lower-class occupations.
  • Though the author's methods are unscientific, and her perspective is as biased as Sinclair's, she nonetheless draws an alarming picture of the state of America's lowest-class citizens: the work they perform is back-breaking, the pay is low, and job security is nonexistent.
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      Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
       
      This article clearly portrays the similarities between The Jungle and N and D, which depicts the lack of progress in the working conditions and lack of business ethics over the past century. For example, the work is "back breaking" and the "pay is low" depict tough working conditions, in addition to the fact that "job security is nonexistent" in these low class jobs, which illustrate business tactics to scare workers into not joining unions, which may cost them their jobs.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    That's a good point. They do actually have to do really tough work, just like everyone else, except they can't make ends meet just because their jobs are deemed insignificant and their corporations are full of greedy aristocrats. These people suffer and are just disposed.
Vivas T

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grapes of wrath poor

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  • It also reveals the terrible working and living conditions of migrant workers in California. Packed into camps with little running water, the Joads struggle to find low-paid work on fruit farms.
  • Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
     
    This illustrates the tough working conditions during the Great Depression through the "Joads struggle to find low-paid work". Due to the fact that the Joads are a symbol for the many migrant workers in the 1930s, this "struggle" was clear throughout the United States.
Connor P

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#3 jungle poor treatment workers

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  • Large corporations grew prosperous, but their wealth failed to trickle down to the worker, whose real wages dropped behind steadily rising prices. Faced with unsafe, unsanitary, and tenuous working conditions, factory workers lacked both economic and emotional security.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This underlined quote displays the conditions the workers of the early 20th century had to overcome. Coming from poor areas and having nothing, their jobs could not supply them with any form of security but rather put stress into their lives and destroyed families.
Connor P

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#4 jungle poor treatment workers corruption

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  • To these men, any money spent on employees—whether in terms of wages, benefits, or sanitary and safe working conditions—meant less money for their own pockets. The connection between healthy, happy workers and high levels of productivity was not obvious in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This quote does a great job of bringing in the time period of the Gilded Age. This time peroid is symbolic of corruption and greed which proves people would do whatever it takes to get ahead. By doing this, they forget the universal theme of helping others which led to the horrid conditions for the poor workers
Sydney C

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 - 0 views

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the jungle working conditions dangerous

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  • Sydney C on 01 Oct 11
     
    To go along with The Jungle, the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in New York City was yet another wakeup call for poor factory conditions. The fire occurred in an overcrowded factory filled with mostly young women and girls. It was a real life companion to the poor conditions described in The Jungle.
Ellen L

Meatpacking Industry - The Jungle, Congress of Industrial Organizations, United Packing... - 0 views

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jungle workers america food Fast Food Nation

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  • Competition and low profit margins generate a corporate motive for maximum productivity, and deregulation has shredded health and safety standards.
  • A study by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS; now the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) in 1997 found that one-fourth of the workers in seven meatpacking plants in Iowa and Nebraska had “questionable” documents. The INS's Operation Vanguard in 1999 rounded up immigrants in slaughterhouses, bringing charges that employers and the government colluded to prevent workers from organizing unions.
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    Connects The Jungle, and the Eastern European immigrant labor force used by the Chicago meatpacking industry to the present day use of Mexican immigrant labor in today's industries. Provides concrete details on the legality of the workforce used by modern corporations, as well as the questionable conditions in which they work. Bridges The Jungle and FFN without actually mentioning FFN
Zaji Z

Abuses Against Workers Taint U.S. Meat and Poultry | Human Rights Watch - 2 views

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fast food nation the jungle ethics treatment of the worker

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  • In meat and poultry plants across the United States, Human Rights Watch found that many workers face a real danger of losing a limb, or even their lives, in unsafe work conditions.
  • “A century after Upton Sinclair wrote ‘The Jungle,’ workers in the meatpacking industry still face serious injuries,” said Jamie Fellner, director of the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch.
  • “When workers try to defend themselves by forming unions, employers use fear and intimidation to stop them,”
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  • “The meatpacking companies hire immigrant workers because they are often the only ones who will work under such terrible conditions,”
  • Zaji Z on 01 Oct 11
     
    Reports are out: modern day meatpacking is still considered to be one imposing extreme hazard to the worker. This is only one of the many modern instances of ethical injustice as employers continue to intimidate their workers from creating unions, as described with Fast Food Nation and McDonald's. It is a marriage of Sinclair's eye-opening description of the meatpacking industry and Schlosser's depiction of contemporary business ethics. 
  • Willie C on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is a great source and annotation showing how the horrors of the meatpacking industry first brought up in the Jungle, and later in Fast Food Nation are still going on today. The terrible ethics of these big businesses are still a problem to this day.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    You guys bring up valid points. Honestly it gets frustrating hearing the same topic being incessantly repeated, but it still is a good source about these novels and the poor treatment of the workers. I like how your second quote even relates it to modern times, just like FFN
Connor P

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#5 grapes of wrath poor treatment workers

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  • Steinbeck shows no California cities in the novel, but reveals the contrast between the bountiful fields and the “Hoovervilles,” the temporary camps in which migrant workers are forced to live without adequate water or sanitation in California’s great Central Valley. “There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation,”
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    Steinbeck shows the pain of the people through poor treatment by using dictions such as "denunciation" and "crime". As the tangent is established between the fields and the "Hoovervilles" is seen, it shows the contrast between the lives of the rich and the poor and how poor working conditions affect them
Connor P

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#3 fast food nation poor treatment workers

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  • Meatpacking workers tend to be the most vulnerable of the vulnerable: mostly non-unionized, mostly poor white and Mexican, often undocumented, easy prey for a meatpacking industry that doesn't shy away from intimidation.
  • role in spreading beef-borne pathogens--particularly the deadly E. coli 0157:H7--and its attempts to skirt government oversight
  • Connor P on 30 Sep 11
     
    This shows that the workers and consumers are at the dispense of the businesses as they dont have the power to overcome them. Due to their social and economic situations, the corporations can control their products and working conditions however they want
Vivas T

'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser - All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books - TIME - 1 views

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fast food nation

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  • When Eric Schlosser came out with Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal in 2001, it was hailed as a modern-day Jungle, and with good reason.
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      Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
       
      This article portrays not only the similarity between modern day working conditions of workers to those in the early 1900s, but it also illustrates the "declining power of labor unions" which illustrates the power of companies strengthening and unfairly taking advantage of these workers.
  • Schlosser did far more, connecting the rise and consolidation of the fast-food industry in America to the declining power of labor unions, sliding blue-collar wages and growing income inequality.
  • "The basic thinking behind fast food has become the operating system of today's retail economy
  • Ellen L on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article describes FFN as a modern day Jungle, but continues by saying that it is more that just 'muckraking.' Rather, Schlosser exposes the motives behind large businesses and how they effect unionization and social equality.
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  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    "I aimed for the public's heart," wrote Upton Sinclair, referring to his muckraking hit The Jungle, "and by accident, I hit it in the stomach."
  • Vivas T on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article portrays not only the similarity between modern day working conditions of workers to those in the early 1900s, but it also illustrates the "declining power of labor unions" which illustrates the power of companies strengthening and unfairly taking advantage of these workers.
  • David D on 30 Sep 11
     
    Fast Food Nation was acclaimed a modern day version of The Jungle when first published. However, this article shows that it was more than your average muckracking novel. It explains that the power of unions fell as the "Fast Food Nation" rose. Also, Schlosser's piece explained the widening social gap of Americans, as the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.
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